Category Archives: Aviation

#Manchester EveNews #climate reporting #virgin on ridiculous. Same story, consecutive days #pressrelease #churnalism

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

All the way back in 2006 Manchester Evening News thundered in an editorial that “Going green must be our top priority.” Their main contribution appears to be recycling.  Sadly, that effort is the recycling of … press releases.  Ahead of … Continue reading →

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Off-topic: Of Hugo Chavez, sky-scrapers and #polarbearfacepalm #manchester #climate

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Of course, climate change doesn’t demand that we rethink our goals at all. Building enormous skyscrapers and vanity projects and pouring money into airports is the way forward. Looking after the health and education of poor people? Boooooring. Meanwhile, in … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Evening News: “Win flights to… London” – “Going green as top priority”? #epicfail

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Seriously.

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Event Report: Aviation Seminar in #Manchester inadvertantly proves point about technology, signal-to-noise ratio, inertia and death.

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Highly intelligent people gathered today at the University of Manchester to discuss imminent peril to the planet from greenhouse gas emissions. In scenes that no satirist would dare to make up, the assembled throng of professors, PhDs and post-graduates then … Continue reading →

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Easy to Jet, easy to see the damage, if you want to…

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

From here – “In 2012 easyJet formed a partnership with UNICEF the world’s leading organisation for children. The partnership runs across easyJet’s pan-European network during the peak summer and winter seasons, reaching out to the airline’s 55 million passengers who … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Manchester Day Parade, or “The Sky Has Limits” #mcrday

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson searches the Manchester Day Parade for mention of climate change, vainly. And tacks a little gratuitious pop anthropology on the end. Why? For the lulz. Who today speaks of climate change? Nobody, it seems. I’ve read … Continue reading →

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Council Leader interviewed on Airport City, carbon literacy and “much much more”…

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Leader of Manchester City Council Richard Leese has suggested that councillors might want to get on their bikes as part of their efforts to lead by example and engage with their constituents around climate change. In a wide-ranging interview conducted … Continue reading →

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SEMMMS like old times

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Went to a Friends of the Earth meeting tonight(1). It was arranged so we could learn more about the new plans for “Airport City” (see previous MCFly story here) and the road that will – if/when it is built, at … Continue reading →

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I’ll recycle, but keep your green fascist hands off my flying

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

From personal experience (cough cough), there are limits to the sacrifices that even the greenest of us are usually willing to make.* Now some academics seem to have proved it. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Volume 54, Issue 10, … Continue reading →

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Airport City – against and for…

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Attention Conservation Notice: The following article contains entirely predictable statements from various organisations about the virtue/vice of “Airport City.” Last week, accompanied by a certain amount of civic boosterism (always in short supply in Manchester), the £659 million “Airport City” … Continue reading →

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